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What is the "Proust Questionnaire"? He could have asked some real question to Bjarne!! What a waste.. ;-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_questionnaire
Oh...ok now I apologize for my ignorance. But anyway, it was a bit boring read, wasn't it. I would prefer to listen Bjarne's opinions about C++ or software developing future, etc.
I know one %) http://www.chunder.com/text/ididit.html
Q: The contribution for which I most want to be remembered:

A: The C++ destructor and the programming techniques that rely on it.

"C++ destructor": Java/Python/etc.?

I think what he meant was objects being destroyed implicitly when they go out of scope - some kind of a "controlled" automatic garbage collection. And it's true that this particular feature in C++ has led to creation of many interesting techniques - auto-pointer, scope locking, to name a few - that otherwise would require full support on the compiler side. The beauty of C++ is that you can implement this kind of things yourself without changing the language.